choose the correct words or phrases In some sentences two answers are correct.

1. She can’t call her husband because she doesn’t have / hasn’t / hasn’t got her mobile.

choose the correct words or phrases In some sentences two answers are correct.

2. Did you have / Had you / Have you got a good time at your nephew’s wedding?

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3. Why are you going to be late? Have you / Do you have / Have you got to go to the doctor’s?

choose the correct words or phrases In some sentences two answers are correct.

4. We had / had got / have got our TV repaired last week, hut it still doesn’t work.

choose the correct words or phrases In some sentences two answers are correct.

5. If she had / have / had had a coffee, she wouldn’t have fallen asleep in the meeting!

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6. I didn’t have to / hadn’t got to / hadn’t to wear a uniform when I went to school.

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7. The boss didn’t have / hadn’t / won’t have heard the news yet because he’s been off sick.

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1. I don’t like my boss much. He can be very bright /sarcastic / steady.

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2. She’s a really conscientious / spontaneous / sympathetic student, so she attends all her lectures.

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3. My father is great at household repairs because he’s very resourceful / sarcastic / straightforward.

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4. The doctor was quite self-sufficient / spontaneous / thorough and examined the patient carefully.

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5. I had a terrible day at work, but my husband wasn’t very determined / steady / sympathetic.

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6. My grandmother was a bright / gentle / thorough woman who was kind to everyone.

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7. My best friend is very determined / resourceful / straightforward; there’s nothing complicated about her.

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Replace the words in bold with a personality idiom using the word in brackets.

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choose the stressed syllable in the words below.

1. con|sci|en|tious

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2. cu|ri|ous

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3. de|ter|mined

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4. gen|tle

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5. self-|suf|fi|cient

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6. stea|dy

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7. re|source|ful

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8. sar|cas|tic

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9. spon|ta|ne|ous

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10. sym|pa|the|tic

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11. tho|rough

Listen to four people comparing having brothers and sisters and being an only child.

Listen again. Which speaker mentions these advantages of having brothers and sisters?

Read the article once and choose the sentence that best describes Ang Lee.

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Ang Lee: my family values

The film director on moving out of his father’s shadow and being determined to make life fun for his own children.

My late father, Sheng Lee, was a traditional Chinese authority figure. He represented the traditional Chinese patriarchal society. I was always living in his shadow; that was my big thing. I was shy and docile and never rebellious. But he taught me how to survive and how to be useful. He was a very pragmatic man, the headmaster of a high school – I don’t know if that was a good or a bad thing.
When I was growing up [as one of four children] he made me study all the time; studying was all that was important to him. He was not much fun and he was kind of disappointed with me in some ways. Artistically, I was very repressed. I never really got to express myself and wasn’t exposed to much art other than watching movies once a week.
My father wanted me to have a respectable profession. Teaching was respectable to him. He said, ‘Get a degree and teach in university.’ When I wasn’t working he would say, ‘What are you going to do? Are you going to set an example for your kids?’ But I just wanted to make movies, so I never fulfilled the hopes he had for me. Even when I was successful, he would say, ‘Now it’s time to do something real.’
My mother, Se-Tsung, was very submissive with my father and obedient. I don’t have many issues with her: she was a very good mother to me and my siblings. When I was growing up, women didn’t matter as much. It was patriarchal, all about the father. Everyone tried to please my father.
As a kid I could not really concentrate on books or homework. I did OK to poorly at school because I would fantasize all the time, having a lot of fun in my head because I didn’t have a lot of fun. It took 35 years to release all that energy. I was repressed and then that repression was released when I became a filmmaker.
When I had my own family I was different because I didn’t want to do that to my own kids, so I am fun. My wife [Jane Lin, a microbiologist] is the tiger mother in the home, the wise one in the family. I am like the third kid at home. She makes all the rules. We [our two sons, Mason, an actor, and Haan, an artist] obey. Before I got work as a director, my wife worked. I was lucky, my wife provided for the family herself and never asked me to find a job. I was picking up the kids from school and doing the cooking and writing. Most of the time I didn’t do anything – there was a lot of anxiety because I couldn’t invest in anything apart from filmmaking.

Read the text again and choose a, b, c, or d.

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Ang Lee: my family values

The film director on moving out of his father’s shadow and being determined to make life fun for his own children.

My late father, Sheng Lee, was a traditional Chinese authority figure. He represented the traditional Chinese patriarchal society. I was always living in his shadow; that was my big thing. I was shy and docile and never rebellious. But he taught me how to survive and how to be useful. He was a very pragmatic man, the headmaster of a high school – I don’t know if that was a good or a bad thing.
When I was growing up [as one of four children] he made me study all the time; studying was all that was important to him. He was not much fun and he was kind of disappointed with me in some ways. Artistically, I was very repressed. I never really got to express myself and wasn’t exposed to much art other than watching movies once a week.
My father wanted me to have a respectable profession. Teaching was respectable to him. He said, ‘Get a degree and teach in university.’ When I wasn’t working he would say, ‘What are you going to do? Are you going to set an example for your kids?’ But I just wanted to make movies, so I never fulfilled the hopes he had for me. Even when I was successful, he would say, ‘Now it’s time to do something real.’
My mother, Se-Tsung, was very submissive with my father and obedient. I don’t have many issues with her: she was a very good mother to me and my siblings. When I was growing up, women didn’t matter as much. It was patriarchal, all about the father. Everyone tried to please my father.
As a kid I could not really concentrate on books or homework. I did OK to poorly at school because I would fantasize all the time, having a lot of fun in my head because I didn’t have a lot of fun. It took 35 years to release all that energy. I was repressed and then that repression was released when I became a filmmaker.
When I had my own family I was different because I didn’t want to do that to my own kids, so I am fun. My wife [Jane Lin, a microbiologist] is the tiger mother in the home, the wise one in the family. I am like the third kid at home. She makes all the rules. We [our two sons, Mason, an actor, and Haan, an artist] obey. Before I got work as a director, my wife worked. I was lucky, my wife provided for the family herself and never asked me to find a job. I was picking up the kids from school and doing the cooking and writing. Most of the time I didn’t do anything – there was a lot of anxiety because I couldn’t invest in anything apart from filmmaking.

Question:

What was Sheng Lee’s opinion of his son’s choice of career?

Read the text again and choose a, b, c, or d.

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Ang Lee: my family values

The film director on moving out of his father’s shadow and being determined to make life fun for his own children.

My late father, Sheng Lee, was a traditional Chinese authority figure. He represented the traditional Chinese patriarchal society. I was always living in his shadow; that was my big thing. I was shy and docile and never rebellious. But he taught me how to survive and how to be useful. He was a very pragmatic man, the headmaster of a high school – I don’t know if that was a good or a bad thing.
When I was growing up [as one of four children] he made me study all the time; studying was all that was important to him. He was not much fun and he was kind of disappointed with me in some ways. Artistically, I was very repressed. I never really got to express myself and wasn’t exposed to much art other than watching movies once a week.
My father wanted me to have a respectable profession. Teaching was respectable to him. He said, ‘Get a degree and teach in university.’ When I wasn’t working he would say, ‘What are you going to do? Are you going to set an example for your kids?’ But I just wanted to make movies, so I never fulfilled the hopes he had for me. Even when I was successful, he would say, ‘Now it’s time to do something real.’
My mother, Se-Tsung, was very submissive with my father and obedient. I don’t have many issues with her: she was a very good mother to me and my siblings. When I was growing up, women didn’t matter as much. It was patriarchal, all about the father. Everyone tried to please my father.
As a kid I could not really concentrate on books or homework. I did OK to poorly at school because I would fantasize all the time, having a lot of fun in my head because I didn’t have a lot of fun. It took 35 years to release all that energy. I was repressed and then that repression was released when I became a filmmaker.
When I had my own family I was different because I didn’t want to do that to my own kids, so I am fun. My wife [Jane Lin, a microbiologist] is the tiger mother in the home, the wise one in the family. I am like the third kid at home. She makes all the rules. We [our two sons, Mason, an actor, and Haan, an artist] obey. Before I got work as a director, my wife worked. I was lucky, my wife provided for the family herself and never asked me to find a job. I was picking up the kids from school and doing the cooking and writing. Most of the time I didn’t do anything – there was a lot of anxiety because I couldn’t invest in anything apart from filmmaking.

Question:

What does Ang Lee say about his mother?

Read the text again and choose a, b, c, or d.

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Ang Lee: my family values

The film director on moving out of his father’s shadow and being determined to make life fun for his own children.

My late father, Sheng Lee, was a traditional Chinese authority figure. He represented the traditional Chinese patriarchal society. I was always living in his shadow; that was my big thing. I was shy and docile and never rebellious. But he taught me how to survive and how to be useful. He was a very pragmatic man, the headmaster of a high school – I don’t know if that was a good or a bad thing.
When I was growing up [as one of four children] he made me study all the time; studying was all that was important to him. He was not much fun and he was kind of disappointed with me in some ways. Artistically, I was very repressed. I never really got to express myself and wasn’t exposed to much art other than watching movies once a week.
My father wanted me to have a respectable profession. Teaching was respectable to him. He said, ‘Get a degree and teach in university.’ When I wasn’t working he would say, ‘What are you going to do? Are you going to set an example for your kids?’ But I just wanted to make movies, so I never fulfilled the hopes he had for me. Even when I was successful, he would say, ‘Now it’s time to do something real.’
My mother, Se-Tsung, was very submissive with my father and obedient. I don’t have many issues with her: she was a very good mother to me and my siblings. When I was growing up, women didn’t matter as much. It was patriarchal, all about the father. Everyone tried to please my father.
As a kid I could not really concentrate on books or homework. I did OK to poorly at school because I would fantasize all the time, having a lot of fun in my head because I didn’t have a lot of fun. It took 35 years to release all that energy. I was repressed and then that repression was released when I became a filmmaker.
When I had my own family I was different because I didn’t want to do that to my own kids, so I am fun. My wife [Jane Lin, a microbiologist] is the tiger mother in the home, the wise one in the family. I am like the third kid at home. She makes all the rules. We [our two sons, Mason, an actor, and Haan, an artist] obey. Before I got work as a director, my wife worked. I was lucky, my wife provided for the family herself and never asked me to find a job. I was picking up the kids from school and doing the cooking and writing. Most of the time I didn’t do anything – there was a lot of anxiety because I couldn’t invest in anything apart from filmmaking.

Question:

Why didn’t Ang Lee do very well at school?

Read the text again and choose a, b, c, or d.

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Ang Lee: my family values

The film director on moving out of his father’s shadow and being determined to make life fun for his own children.

My late father, Sheng Lee, was a traditional Chinese authority figure. He represented the traditional Chinese patriarchal society. I was always living in his shadow; that was my big thing. I was shy and docile and never rebellious. But he taught me how to survive and how to be useful. He was a very pragmatic man, the headmaster of a high school – I don’t know if that was a good or a bad thing.
When I was growing up [as one of four children] he made me study all the time; studying was all that was important to him. He was not much fun and he was kind of disappointed with me in some ways. Artistically, I was very repressed. I never really got to express myself and wasn’t exposed to much art other than watching movies once a week.
My father wanted me to have a respectable profession. Teaching was respectable to him. He said, ‘Get a degree and teach in university.’ When I wasn’t working he would say, ‘What are you going to do? Are you going to set an example for your kids?’ But I just wanted to make movies, so I never fulfilled the hopes he had for me. Even when I was successful, he would say, ‘Now it’s time to do something real.’
My mother, Se-Tsung, was very submissive with my father and obedient. I don’t have many issues with her: she was a very good mother to me and my siblings. When I was growing up, women didn’t matter as much. It was patriarchal, all about the father. Everyone tried to please my father.
As a kid I could not really concentrate on books or homework. I did OK to poorly at school because I would fantasize all the time, having a lot of fun in my head because I didn’t have a lot of fun. It took 35 years to release all that energy. I was repressed and then that repression was released when I became a filmmaker.
When I had my own family I was different because I didn’t want to do that to my own kids, so I am fun. My wife [Jane Lin, a microbiologist] is the tiger mother in the home, the wise one in the family. I am like the third kid at home. She makes all the rules. We [our two sons, Mason, an actor, and Haan, an artist] obey. Before I got work as a director, my wife worked. I was lucky, my wife provided for the family herself and never asked me to find a job. I was picking up the kids from school and doing the cooking and writing. Most of the time I didn’t do anything – there was a lot of anxiety because I couldn’t invest in anything apart from filmmaking.

Question:

Why were the first years of Ang Lee’s marriage difficult?